Friday, April 21, 2017

Theater Whore: Free Fire

Free
Fire 9/10

There
will be some spoilers. The new movie Free Fire was what I wanted and
more. I saw the trailer for this last year and wondered where the
hell it went. Well, it came out today and I used an AMC gift card I
got for my birthday last month to head on over to the Century City
AMC. I had not seen a movie here in years and they have really
improved it. In the trailer its just a warehouse full of people
shooting at each other. Guess what? That is a large portion of this
movie. Just a bunch of folks shooting at each other. After almost 25
minutes of trailers the movie started. I shit you not. There were
that many trailers and I could probably tell you about two of the
ones I saw.

These
two guys named Stevo and Bernie are heading to meet up with some IRA
guys named Chris and Frank played by Cillian Murphy and Michael
Smiley. They are there with Justine played by Brie Larson. They are
there to buy some guns. Its a simple job. Ord played by Armie Hammer
shows up. I have to say that by far this guy was my favorite
character in this movie. Everyone has something unlikable about them,
including him, but he was so damned intriguing. Every time he opened
his mouth I laughed. I wont say what gets the shooting started but it
was very justified to me. And watching people that are shot get upset
when their hand goes into glass it funny as hell to me.

This
movie had twists and shit that I was not expecting in this. The
clothing, the music, dialogue, the acting, and the look of the movie
were all great. The only reason I gave it a 9 instead of a 10 is
because as much as I liked this movie I could not imagine buying it.
When I give a movie a 10 I tend to purchase it as soon as possible
and just keep watching it over and over. I do plan on buying the
soundtrack though. I looked at who was originally cast in certain
roles of this and I am so glad they did other not as good films.
Larson, Sharlto Copley, Murphy, and Hammer were the most entertaining. Not to
shit on the supporting cast because everyone fit their role well and
I couldn't imagine anyone else playing them.